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#1 Bing adopts LegitScript’s addiction treatment ad standards used by Google and Facebook This week Bing announced that the search engine would adopt the LegitScript certification program of drug and alcohol addiction treatment centers for allowing paid advertisements. Google adopted this system in April of last year followed by Facebook in August. Several other companies/vendors …

These summaries were directly excerpted from a Congressional document related to the recently passed bipartisan opioid legislation and linked in the source. FDA (Food and Drug Administration) Opioid Packaging – To help encourage responsible prescribing behavior and limit overprescribing, this would clarify FDA’s authority to require drug manufacturers to package certain drugs, including opioids, …

#1. Senate approves $8 Billion “Opioid Crisis Response Act” of 2018 containing over 70 proposals On Monday, the widely-anticipated Senate approval of the Opioid Crisis Response Act of 2018 became a reality. The total spending allocated is to be about $8 Billion with $4.7 Billion already approved in March and another $3.7 Billion anticipated to be …